Animal pictures of the week: 16 March 2012

In this photo taken yesterday, a two-week old earless rabbit sits on the hands of a keeper at the zoo in Limbach-Oberfrohna, eastern Germany. The bunny had its 15 minutes of fame brought to an abrupt end when he was accidentally stepped on by a television cameraman. The fate of 17-day-old Til the bunny with a genetic defect was plastered across German newspapers today, as the small zoo in Saxony was due to have presented him to the world at a press conference. The unidentified cameraman who had been filming the bunny in its enclosure on Wednesday told Bild he hadn't seen Til, who had buried himself in hay, when he took a step backward.Picture: Uwe Meinhold/AP